bom : tree boma / bomtefa : arboreal, pertaining to trees bomhaba : tree-ed, having tree(s) bomsena : tree-less, devoid of trees bomoza : having a large quantity of trees, a dense tree population bomemza : having an ordinary concentration of trees bomiza : having a sparse tree population, having few trees

When used with color words, -iz- means “very much diluted in
white,” for example, roda = red, rodiza = pink.

NOTE: In previous versions of Vorlin, words like saloz
and saliz were inherently adjectival and did not require the -a
suffix. Also, the moderative aspect was indicated by -uc rather than -emz-.
These archaic forms can still be used in poems and religious scriptures
when the writer wants to give the texts an old-fashioned feel.

adverbs

Adding -e to a root-word forms an adverb. The -e suffix has
a meaning similar to “in the manner of” or “using a
method involving...” It is somewhat similar to the English suffix -ly.
Examples: gut = goodness, gute = well; mal = badness,
male = poorly, badly.

The aspectual infixes -oz-, -emz-, -iz- can be used in the creation of
adverbs: fulize = “in a slightly bird-like manner.”

comparison

The special adverbs les “less,” mer “more,”
and gam “to the same degree” form the comparatives. They
often occur with the preposition pinu “than, compared to.”

In an alternative viewpoint, les, mer, gam can take the suffix -u
and become preposition-like words:

tan hus guti gamu tun hus. This house is as good as yonder house.
yas fac rodi lesu tis fac. My face is less red than your face.

By the way, les, gam and mer can be used as prefixes in the
creation of compound words: ne mermalisko zak = don’t worsen matters;
fem leslukisko han = the female caused the male to be less happy.

demonstratives

Demonstratives (words like “this” and “those”) are a
special class of words. They behave like adjectives, but if there are several
adjectives in a phrase, the demonstrative will “float” to the
beginning of the phrase.

Like Japanese, Georgian, Old English and many other languages, Vorlin’s
demonstratives have a three-way distinction: tan “this, these”
refers to something near the speaker, tin “that, those” refers to
something near the addressee (the person to whom the speaker is talking), and
tun “yonder” refers to something which is relatively distant
from both the speaker and the addressee. Note that the sequence of vowels
in tan, tin, tun is the same as in the pronouns ya, ti, ku.